麻豆传媒 Weekly is planning to run ongoing coverage on the dramatic developments in the struggle for democracy and justice in Honduras over the coming days.
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Residents of Hato de Enmedio, Tegucigalpa, take control of their barrio.
Democracy Now! report on Zelaya's dramatic return to Honduras.
Caracas, September 21, 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez today congratulated the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya on his "heroic" return to his homeland eighty-six days after he was ousted by a military coup on June 28. Chavez also called on the coup regime, headed by Roberto Micheletti, to peacefully hand over power to Zelaya.
鈥滻 feel very sad to be leaving, but happy and proud to receive your great gift of solidarity with the people of Venezuela and Latin America鈥, Daniel Sanchez, a community leader from Valencia, Venezuela, told an audience of 50 at the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) hall on September 17.
鈥淚f you don鈥檛 give a shit, that鈥檚 what you get鈥, was a favourite chant of striking Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) city campus staff at their picket lines on September 16.
Eighteen-year-old South African athlete Caster Semenya has done nothing wrong. Yet she has been accused of deceiving the world about her gender. There is nothing wrong with Semenya鈥檚 body. Yet her body has been paraded in front of the world by the mass media as if she were a sideshow freak.
The Justice for Mr Ward campaign organised a lunchtime rally to hand over 5000 petitions to the WA state government on September 16, followed by an evening public meeting. More than 100 people attended the rally and about 200 attended the meeting.
Quique Cruz sums up the story of his long life journey towards the creation of an extraordinary work of art and human testimony called Archaeology of Memory: 鈥淭he day after my nineteenth birthday, I was detained by Pinochet鈥檚 secret police and spent one month as a desaparecido in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre.
More than 20 people marched through Perth handing out leaflets and calling for the release of the 鈥淐uban Five鈥 鈥 political prisoners held in US jails for investigating terrorism against Cuba.
The problem is obvious to anyone who uses public transport 鈥 in Sydney or any other major city in Australia. Public transport networks, designed in the 1940s, are straining to service growing cities.
Over September 12-13, more than 400 people travelled to the Hazelwood coal-fired power station in Victoria鈥檚 Latrobe Valley to send a clear message: 鈥淪witch off Hazelwood, switch on renewables.鈥
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